Welcome to Heart Assisted Therapy® (HAT)

Heart Assisted Therapy® (HAT®) is an integrative, humanistic, and mindfulness-enhancing approach to psychotherapy. The HAT model operates within a holistic mind-body-energy paradigm, and is a hybrid of traditional psychotherapy with learning from energy psychology approaches.

Heart Assisted Therapy is a psychotherapy model that
incorporates a mindful whole of the individual’s cognitions, emotions, and
sensory experiences using an integrative and self-nurturing protocol. HAT is a clinical mind-body and science-based
approach that is client-centered and client-directed in keeping with the wisdom
of psychologist, Carl Rogers and psychiatrist, Milton Erickson. The individual’s unique and personal meaning
and associations regarding the identified Treatment Focus are paramount with
HAT and are gently accepted and shifted by the individual. The influence of the heart, heart energy,
respiration, and the body’s innate electro-magnetic physiology relative to
experience, memory, emotion, and sensation are subtle yet integral components
built into the HAT protocol to foster the change process. The HAT model of psychotherapy is gentle but
can be deceptively intense as treatment gets “to the heart of the matter”
quickly while promoting healing shifts.

The HAT model of psychotherapy maximizes the therapist’s skills in listening,
observing, and planning while integrating procedures that enable the
opportunity for the individual to be validated, and to heal, shift emotions and
thinking, adapt, and move forward in life. HAT also incorporates
“Awareness Streaming” and a stabilizing breathing treatment while overlapping hands
are placed over the heart (“heart breaths”) throughout the protocol promoting
self-regulation.

Heart Assisted Therapy is
the original work of psychologist John H. Diepold, Jr., Ph.D. The HAT model
constitutes a psychologically versatile and comprehensive treatment methodology
that is mindful, gentle, self-nurturing, easy to use, and blends comfortably
with all forms and orientations in psychotherapy. HAT has been used
beneficially to address a wide variety of life issues.

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